Maksim is a first name for boys.
Maksim is a well-known name in the US, but is still special. It is currently only given to every ten thousandth boy, and therefore ranks at 1289 in the SmartGenius statistics. This means there are 1,288 boys names that are more common, but also tens of thousands that are much rarer. If you polled the whole US population – children, adults and seniors – you’d find less than one in 10,000 to be named Maksim.
The odds that a man or boy named Maksim lives in your home state are about the same as betting on heads or tails in a coin toss. This boy’s name is quite popular, but not equally so throughout the entire USA. You can meet boys and men with the name Maksim in 23 states – which is obviously nearly every second of all 50 states in the USA, for example in Alabama, Arizona, California, Colorado or Connecticut. In relation to the number of residents, the most men and boys with the first name Maksim live in Washington – here, one in 16,204 bears this name. In comparison, if we look at all living men and boys in the whole country, only one in 107,416 will turn around if you call his first name Maksim.
Well, you might say, you probably figured that out yourself! But what you might not know is: The letter M is a particularly popular initial letter for boys’ names – 6.2% of all common boys’ names in the US begin with this letter. By the way, the most common first letters for boys’ names are J and A.
With six letters, the name Maksim is of average length. In fact, 28% of all common first names in the US consist of exactly six letters. 24% of all first names are shorter, while 48% have seven letters or more. On average, first names in the US (not counting hyphenated names) are 6.5 letters long. There are no significant differences between boys' and girls' names.
That means that with 6.2% of all boys' names that begin with an M, this first letter is much more common than the other letters on average. If you are now wondering which boys’ name with M is the most common... the answer is Michael.
If your name is Maksim and someone asks after your name, you can of course just tell them what it is. But sometimes that isn't so easy - what if it's too loud, and you don't understand them well? Or what if the other person is so far away that you can see them but not hear them? In these situations, you can communicate your name in so many other ways: you call spell it, sign it, or even use a flag to wave it...
So that everyone really understands you when you have to spell the name Maksim, you can simply say:
Mouse
Apple
Koala
Sun
Igloo
Mouse
Braille is made up of dots, which the blind and visually impaired can feel to read words.
Maksim
Maksim
Just use American Sign Language!
These flags are used for maritime communication - each flag represents a letter.
M
A
K
S
I
M
In the navy, sailors of two ships might wave flags to each other to send messages. A sailor holds two flags in specific positions to represent different letters.
M
A
K
S
I
M
In Morse code, letters and other characters are represented only by a series of short and long tones. For example, a short tone followed by a long tone stands for the letter A. Maksim sounds like this:
